On the cricket field, MS Dhoni begins cautiously and then gets into attacking mode, but at the box office, the popularity of the star-cricketer has helped his biopic – ‘MS Dhoni: The Untold Story’ – to the second spot, ahead of films featuring superstars like Shah Rukh Khan (FAN), Akshay Kumar (Housefull 3, Rustom, Airlift) and Hrithik Roshan (Mohenjo Daro).
The Neeraj Pandey film has not only opened well at the box office on Friday, but sustained well on Saturday too. The two-day collections of the film stands at Rs 41.9 crore.
In fact, keeping a film of a certain megastar aside, ’MS Dhoni: The Untold Story’ is the only other film to cross the 35 crore in its first two days and also the only film to collect more than 20 crore on each of its first two days!
While ‘Sultan’ benefitted from two partial holidays for Eid, FAN too had the advantage of a half-holiday for Ram Navami on its opening day. ’MS Dhoni: The Untold Story’ did not have a single holiday, yet has managed to beat some of the bigger films this year.
It raises an important question – do stars really need favourable / holiday weekends, even at the cost of a major box office clash? Can Raees or Kaabil achieve the kind of numbers that Dhoni has, if they clash? If a film, featuring a big star, is made to appeal to a wider section of the audience and has good content – it can easily average 20 – 25 crore over a normal non-holiday weekend.
Check out the two-day collections of films that have managed to cross the 30 crore mark this year:
- Sultan - 73.86 crore
- MS Dhoni – 41.9 crore
- FAN – 34.6 crore
- Housefull 3 - 31.51 crore
- Rustom – 30.54 crore
Really eyeopner for holiday dates seeking biggies.
Go,dhoni,go !
Fine, Eid is a ‘partial’ holiday (according to the sacred theory of baba indicine), but can someone let me know a movie which was failed on Eid since 2009?
‘SRK’ is a flip star and he is struggling since 2010 (according to some morons) still he managed to give a blockbuster in his so-called bad phase.
Then is that something really big if movies of a certain non-actor are collecting huge on Eid(with the fact that he is in his best phase) ?
@Tiger – the real king,
U seem to be very happy!U should be!Currently,its Salman’Good time!So u must be!
But Don’t forget the past!
Don’t let your ego & your comments burden on u in the future!
#Time Knows NoBody
Who knows it may hit u back in the future(like in the past)
#So remain calm & sensible,bash or troll anyone with a reason not like u keep doing in every article.
I respect u & salman bhai(he is one of my fav)& this is my genuine advice to u.
#No Offense 2 Anybody
#Just a simple comment
#luv
@Chuhe : Your continuous rant will not change the truth. There is no need for SRK to run away, its Adi who convinced him.
SRK releasing his movie on Xmas and Adi releasing Thug on Diwali (though Xmas is said to be belong to Amir) says a lot.
But unfortunately that won’t enter into your tiny brain because Your only agenda is to criticise SRK and Modi – the reason is yet to be known.
Such opening collections are a dream for our joker boy, jadoo boy n pluto boy…!
@xzone,
From your comments,U seem 2 be a very sensible guy.KUDOS 2 u & many srkians like @ANK who r actually very sensible but I have to tell this 2 u (if u use Twitter) there r many srk fans who r just disgusting & who speak against the nationality of Akki.I feel like banging their head in the wall so that they get some sensibility.What r ur views for these kinda people r they really SRK fans or some Akki haters?
#Akki Fan
#DEATH RANGER
#luv
@RatZone
Again you come here n spout more nonsense that for arguements sake had your wife Complan Boy barked then we could understand as being the ramblings of a retarded loon but when it comes from your bitter mouth it just looks like sour grapes…!
Sultan DID NOT release on a full blown holiday you clown- get over it….!
As for Lungi Express- it DID release on a full blown holiday plus it had the bo pull of Deepika n the added advantage of Rohit Shitty…!
MSD was a tribute film to fans of Dhoni- its a success but when our Pluto King gave his fans a tribute film earlier this yr then end result was ALL TIME DISASTER
Lol
This film proves that not all tribute films/ biopics are destined to fail miserably like our Global Pankha Salesmans tribute film earlier this yr, Billu 2…!
MSD Biopic is successful but I dont understand HOW when it was not CONTENT RICH like for example Content Rich Billu Fan…!
Indicine for you just 1 word
L , O , L ——)LOL..
Ms dhoni has a huge fan following from east to west and from north to south .
And in india cricket is loved more than hockey (national game ) .its a religion in india , here cricketers have crazy fan followers .
Msd is the reason behind this …
thats why this film collected 20cr on opening day not becoz of ssr or other factors …….
Holiday factor came in effect when multiplex era begins … now a day ticket
prices are higher compared to before mutiplex era …..A film like SR collected 32 cr on day 1 on 15 aug and on the other side a film like AJ collected 14 cr on a non holiday in same year.
holiday factor like EDX increases collection by 40 % ….
even salman films on normal date like kick 26 cr BB 27.5cr
and on holiday ETT 31 cr in 2012 recent ex Sultan 38 cr prdp 41 cr so on ….
Arjun youngistan fan …..
lifetime depends on content if the content is good and universal even newcomer will give Highest grossing film ex KNPH hrithik ……
……
In this multiplex era releasing multiple film is not a joke …. audience gets divided and after 2013 akki has done bad commercial movies like boss SIB Entertainment etc Even H3 is mha crap Many niche genre thriller film ………. and your ranbir after giving a YJHD struggling for giving a single hit
kangna same thing Ranbeer will do samething after Befikre …and ssr after dhoni ……
you are barking about 150cr and 200 r Ashiqui fame Rahul roy is than biggest megastar ashiqui is his debut film…..
@Truth,
Superb Comment!Kudos 2 u!
Some dumb people <:-D <:-D <:-D
will only compare this too other superstars.
#Lol to all of them
@Indicine,U should move this comment of @truth 2 the first place.
Dhoni has hit 2 consecutive SIXERS with an almost guaranteed third SIX today which means he will reach his century in superb style…!
On the other hand our Pluto King Ashok Dinda hit a four on his opening delivery (opening day) before afew singles came n then ofcourse he stupidly run himself out whilst on 80….!
Dhoni will reach 100 with just a billion Indians as fans but our Pluto Boy Kingu with 3.6 billion galaxy wide fans could only reach 80cr…!
Lol
@xzone 3:49 pm,
Death Ranger*
not Death Danger
@3:54pm RatZone
Look at the hypicrisy…. Atleast bhai does not beg infront of producers alas Jeetu Sir during Eid 2013 behind Ekta Kapoors back trying to get daddy to postpone his daughters OUATIMD….!
When it comes to wanting a holiday release our Kingu takes begging to epic proportions…!
@2:55pm IdiotZone
Hahaha
What nonsense… Both MSD biopic n Billu Fan were in principle tribute films to fans of both lead characters but you wont accept that bcoz you know the whole world (rightly so) were/ are more interested in the rags to riches story of Dhoni over Kingu…!
@3:03pm RatZone
Once again your Pluto Star with billions of so called Youtube fans is running away from another clash with flop star Jadoo Boy n you claim its bcoz of him being targeted by afew million extremists…!
Why dont his billions of fans bash the extremists up if they dare to stop Raeesa Bhabhi from releasing…??? Frow a set n defend your Kingu
@Tiger 3:34 pm,
Bro,thatz not my answer!!!I m questioning u about “SULTAN” & u r answering me something else.I repeat my question “DO U THINK SULTAN RELEASING ON ANY OTHER PERIOD RATHER THAN EDX(as per Indicine statement in this article)
WOULD HAVE DONE 300 cr (without any open weeks).
Answer me properly if not give credit to EDX for it.
All people over here wait for tiger’s answer to this.
#NO OFFENSE TO SALMAN
#OR ANYBODY
#Just a simple question
#Lol
@joker Ranger
Stop worrying about Sultan crossing 300cr on a non holiday coz even without the full blown opening day holiday it would have only missed out on 300cr by no more than 5% but worry more about when your Joker Boy is finally gonna cross 150cr n that too in your lifetime…!
@New era srk
Did you say dhoni is more popular than SACHIN???
It proves you’re truly a fan of srk.
Even though SACHIN has retired but he’s still the most popular Indian in India. He’s Cricket God and for your info even.Virat kohli is more popular than msd.
Jolly akkiholic right they used to say that Khans and are this and that …they dont need content or holiday factor to give 150 and blah blah blah
and
1 fan flopped now content content content …..
they are still trying to cross akki 135 cr on non holiday …
2 of them has not crossed100 cr on non holiday
when it comes to crowd puling to theatres no one will come close to akki….every year he releases 3 or more film and people still want to watch him shows it all he is the most watched actor even on tv he has max no of blockbusters on tv ……he is the biggest money spinner despite his films are not done well in last three year he still earning on the level of khans and mainly through movies unlike others …highest tax payer
3rd most searched actor on google after salman and srk ….which shows his popularity … …..
and when it comes to consistency no one will beat srk he is king consistency …
sir tiger
sallu has only 3 hits in last decade 2 of them are multistarrers …..Sabka din aata hai aaj tumhara kal hamara hoga …..dont worry time will change …
@Death Ranger- Sultan still would have done 300cr without eid because we get only one day holiday for eid. Just one day & no other hodiday. But in diwali, school & college are off for 5 days & for christmas 15 days including winter vacation & new year holidays. If bajrangi would have released on christmas then it would have beaten pk.
So sultan deserve 300cr.
@Aunt 04:19 pm : Have some shame you fragile skeleton. Till when will you be hiding behind Deepika?
And where was the ‘super-stardom’ of Deepika when finding fanny released?
If I buy your logic, FF should have collected at least 150 cr if not 200 cr. But we all know the end result.
Going forward, if you have little shame left then before pointing fingers on SRK just accept the fact that your holiday made star couldn’t cross the one year old record of HNY despite of having the similar advantages.
Now start crying about manipulation and inflated figures.
@04:21 pm : There is substantial difference between ‘biopic’ and ‘tribute’ you clown! Work on your basics instead of barking day and night here on indicine.
@Aunt : Yes, biopics are in trend, so why don’t you ask the non-actor to act in a biopic based on his own life.
After all, no one else can deliver the characters of black buck butcher, women offender and drunkard psych Better than him!
@Aunt : OMG 10 back to back comments.
Aunt, as I have said in past, don’t shake so much.
Your fragile fingers cannot bear such enormous physical effort and they might go dysfunct in between.
And since I care a lot for your grandchildren, at least for their sake, stop trembling.
Dhoni is much bigger than our Bollywood superstars …!!!
@akki-srk rk
Bro one correction AJ collected only 9.5cr on it’s opening day not 14cr
@Death ‘Ranger’ : My bad, have corrected now.
But since you are a potential ‘Danger’ for these auto-drivers, the word ‘Danger’ came just out of flow.
@sunny hahahahaha well said
I remember this @indicine saying khans doesn’t need content to go pass 150+
And after fan iss site ke muh par tala lag gaya…!!!
@death ranger
Of course I’m proud Sri Lankan